On long-term care, hourly pay for personal care

4:16 PM,
Nov. 20, 2013

Written by

Rhonda Sachais, Fletcher

As an adult who became the parent and protector for her mother after the fatal diagnosis of Alzheimer's, I read your headline article, "Proposed Medicaid cuts worry families needing long-term care" with tears, anger, frustration and dread. Somehow, my homemaker mother had managed to squirrel away a few hundred thousand dollars from my father's factory salary which rapidly disappeared when she needed to be placed in various facilities. Eventually, we had to apply for Medicaid to continue paying for her care and dare not think what the average person would do without ...